I’m Smart Watch Looks Curiously Familiar

No, it's not a Nano. It's the confusingly-named I'm, a phone-controlling watch

With a name that will immediately disappear to the bottom every Google search, the I’m Watch is a Smart Watch that looks like somebody shrank a cellphone and put it on their wrist. In fact, it looks more like the current, impossible-to-use iPod Nano in a wrist-strap case, and has the touch-screen to match.

The I’m tethers itself to your phone via Bluetooth, from where it draws its lifeblood. Caller ID, speakerphone (calling Dick Tracy!) and music are all streamed from the phone, and controlled on the curved 1.5-inch, 240 x 240 TFT screen.

Inside, the watch runs a modded version of Android 1.6 and comes with 64MB RAM and 4GB storage. The battery is good for three hours on speakerphone, and will stretch for a couple of days if you don’t use the thing. I’m is claimed to work with pretty much any phone, beginning with the iPhone and Android at launch, and adding Windows 7 and BlackBerry later

The I’m, from an Italian company of the same name, will ship in January. It starts at €300 ($410) and goes up from there with titanium and jewel-encrusted versions. You can pre-order now for half that price, but given that we’ve never seen anything from these guys before, it might be worth waiting until they’re really, really ready.